Dora Drimalas

Look at how you can print on this paper.

And that was experimenting.

That was learning.

That was spot inks on different colored stock and different printing techniques and the edge painting.

All of that stuff, all of those details, those are like the little love letters to bookmaking and to printing.

completely in that book.

So when you see it, you're like, oh, this person loves books.

But then the stories that are woven throughout are seeing so many monographs from different creative people executed differently.

And everyone has a slightly different story to tell.

Everyone has a slightly different thing they want you to walk away with.

And I think what we want people to walk away with is that it's all about the

And creativity is something that has to be fed.

So hopefully you get that diversity of thought.

There's multiple voices in the book.

It's not just Brian and I. We didn't name the studio after ourselves.

We named the studio Hybrid to reinforce that thinking, to reinforce inputs and outputs.

And hopefully that's what people get to take away.

We knew we wanted to do a book and we've started and stopped a few times over the years, but it's probably great that what happens in a small studio is you get busy, real work comes in and then you have to stop working on your book and then you do the stuff that pays the bills, which makes sense.

But we had gotten a book pitched together and we were starting to go out and early on in the process,

dictionary said, yes, we'll do it.